Contributors

Mihai Popescu

Postdoctoral Associate in Chemistry, Colorado State University

Postdoctoral Associate in Chemistry, Colorado State University Mihai Popescu is a postdoctoral researcher in the Paton lab at Colorado State University. His research focuses on the elucidation of complex reaction mechanisms with the aid of modern computational methods.

Mona-Marie Wandrey

PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge

PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge I am a PhD candidate in Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. My research focuses on managing uncertainty in consciousness science, combining my background in medicine with my interest in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. I completed my medical degree at Charité Berlin and my MPhil in Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Cambridge. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a medical doctor in a neurology department in Berlin.

Mariachiara Di Cesare

Professor in Population Studies and Global Health, University of Essex

Professor in Population Studies and Global Health, University of Essex Professor Di Cesare has interdisciplinary work experience in both academia and international organisations. Her research in population health uses and integrates concepts, data and methods from demography, epidemiology, statistics, and social science. Her work has focused on the epidemiology and public health of obesity and undernutrition, the role of early nutrition on child development, whether, and how much, changes in metabolic risk factors have contributed to the decline in cardiovascular mortality, and the extent of within and between countries inequalities in non‐communicable diseases mortality and associated risk factors. Her work is influencing policy worldwide and she has contributed to the scientific response to COVID-19 by looking at novel approaches to identifying outbreaks using wastewater based epidemiology, excess mortality, and the overall response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Chiara's research on global trends in obesity is used by the World Health Organisation (Global Health Observatory) as official estimates and is used to inform policies. In 2018 she led the successful application to the WHO Essential Medicine List for the inclusion of non-vitamin K anticoagulants for the treatment of atrial fibrillation to prevent stroke. She is currently a member of the core team of the Independent Expert Group of the Global Nutrition Report and a member of the World Heart Federation Observatory Advisory Group. Chiara is an honorary research fellow at Imperial College London and an honorary professor at Middlesex University.

Melek Cigdem-Bayram

Ronald Henderson Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne

Ronald Henderson Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Dr Melek Cigdem-Bayram is a Ronald Henderson Senior Research Fellow Melbourne Institute: Applied Social and Economic Research, a position held jointly with the University of Melbourne and Brotherhood of St Laurence.

Michael Given

Professor of Landscape Archaeology, University of Glasgow

Professor of Landscape Archaeology, University of Glasgow I am Professor of Landscape Archaeology in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Scotland. I specialise in historical and landscape archaeology, particularly in Cyprus and in Scotland, and am particularly interested in the relationship between people and environment. I have conducted archaeological survey in Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Scotland and Turkey. From 2017 to 2024 I was director of the publication phase of the Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus, and I an currently co-director of the Glencoe Archaeological Project.

Mark Stevenson2

Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield Mark Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in Sheffield University's School of Computer Science where he is a member of the Natural Language Processing group. The aim of his research is the development of systems to extract knowledge from text and assist users in accessing this information. He has been Principal Investigator of projects funded by a range of sources including the EU, EPSRC and Google. He was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and co-ordinator of the EU-funded project PATHS. He has also worked in a range of commercial and academic organisations including Reuters Ltd (where he was involved in the production and dissemination of the widely used Reuters Corpus), Adastral Park (British Telecom’s research lab) and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.